Comments on: Do we really want a Final Fantasy VII Remake?

By: Tseng

Tseng — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:29:34 +0000

I will say, I bought the original release, and I opened it on the way home, thus ruining the collector’s value. Needless to say, my version of the game is well used. I’ve been looking for a new disc 3, as well as a new playstation to put it in. The listings on Ebay are rediculous. My only interest in a remake, are purely out of financial motives. I would actually be satisfied with a re-release, and perhaps a wiiware version.

By: Kairos

Kairos — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:10:04 +0000

Personally I would much rather see them explore another aspect of the original story as opposed to a remake. Say, let us explore Sephiroth’s POV of the game events, or the Turks/Rufus, even…that’d be awesome, if not near-impossible, and would be fairly interesting to see as long as it held true to the original story. Or a remake of Before Crisis for something other than a cell phone. (i.e. Sort of what “RE:Chain of Memories” did for the original “Chain of Memories game in the KH series.)

Although I WOULD love to see a remake, I just don’t think it would work. I’m currently in the process of replaying the original FFVII and I completely understand how parts of it wouldn’t translate to modern graphics and voice acting. Hell, my sister and I sometimes read the scenes aloud (helps with understanding better what’s going on/making sure we don’t misread…plus it’s just a damn good time XD), and it sometimes gets really confusing to translate to speaking (especially when Cloud and Tifa are in Cloud’s subconscious). Not to mention we’d lose Cid’s potty mouth.

Plus, I don’t know how much of George Newbern as Sephiroth I could take. Definitely not the length of the game.

By: Nuno

Nuno — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:28:38 +0000

I just had this really crazy idea. What if FF Versus XIII is reality the remake of FFVII. I mean, both projects compete against each other as both have the same genre and both are being developed by the same team. So it ended up being a clash between both projects, it ended up being “Final Fantasy Versus Final Fantasy”, more precisely “Final Fantasy VII Versus Final Fantasy XIII. Take FFVII out of that sentence and rearrange the versus and you end up with Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Nobody would think of that. (I’m not crazy, I’m just really looking forward for the remake)

By: Nuno

Nuno — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:11:02 +0000

You worked on a bunch of Final Fantasy games. Which one would you want to remake the most?
[Laughs.] That would be Final Fantasy VII!
If we had the manpower and the time to work on a project, if we were to remake Final Fantasy VII with the quality of Final Fantasy XIII it would become a tremendous project. If we can get the number of people we need by all means that would be the one I would really want to remake.

The above comes from an interview with FFXIII director. I guess the stars are really aligning for an extraordinary event. LOL

Full interview at “http://www.siliconera.com/2010/03/18/final-fantasy-xiii-director-answers-your-ffxiii-questions”

By: Nuno

Nuno — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:40:15 +0000

I wish we could make it an even heavier debate so square could take notice of us who want the remake.
When I said give VII the monkey island treatment was because it would be a quicker way to remake the game, and I wouldn’t mind that look. But yes, XIII graphic quality is the way to go. And without removing any of the story elements like the towns that we can visit after we have been there (I my self went back to the golden saucer numerous times to play ski in the arcade lounge). I don’t know I in the interviews I’ve been reading with the creators of XIII they seem so proud of the linearity of the game. They compare Final Fantasy games to a movie that you play from a to b. WRONG MR. KITASE. Final Fantasy is all about the freedom to explore how choose to. And they talk about XIII-2? I hope not.
From the interview, and being a westerner myself, I think the current people in front of the Final Fantasy games don’t really know what they should be about. Their called Final Fantasy because, well, their suppose to be the ultimate game.

In case you want to read the interview:
http://games.schrijversblok.nl/?p=261

If you didn’t play the game I can tell you that you missed the ultimate game, but i can totally understand why, because no matter how good the games are, we want them by todays graphic standards. Your comment about not being willing to download the game from psn proves or confirms two things I stated before: the majority of FFVII sales on the psn is coming from fans who have lost or have discs that no longer play and (most importantly) there is a new generation of gamers that want to experience VII for the first time but with todays graphic standards.

By: Oni-Samurai

Oni-Samurai — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:33:05 +0000

Damn this is one heavy debate.
I want a remake of FF7 with 12s gameplay and 13s graphics. I never played the ps1 game & don’t fancy downloading it from PSN.

By: Nuno

Nuno — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:01:33 +0000

Valleyshrew, you said something that I had thought of but could not express with words (couldn’t think of any besides the meat and potaoes example): the graphical aspect has indeed replaced the amazing gameplay experience and fun elements of the story, which is something that XIII is lacking. Sure, it has top notch graphics for this day and age, but so did VII when it was released. What lacking now is a good, catching story to keep us hooked, so I must again say I’m in favor of the remake, and I’m more inclined for the same treatment monkey island titles are being given. It is working for lucasarts to retain the same 2D structure while revamping the sound and the graphics.
As for the much respected Mr.Sakaguchi, it is not susprising that he returned to is roots (the first six final fantasy games were for nintendo systems) to produced more hearth felt games.
Guess I should start thinking about buying a Wii if a plan on enjoying his latest masterpieces – The Last Story.

By: valleyshrew

valleyshrew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:47 +0000

Fantastic read and thoroughly agree that a FFVII remake would be missing the point. The series has just gotten worse as the graphical work has replaced any of the quirky gameplay or fun elements that made the series so special. And now with the latest installment society has been near completely deleted from the game replaced with one long melodramatic chase scene with no variety but battles where nearly all you do is spam autobattle. At least gambits required strategy to the autobattling while solving the problem of repetitive and tedious attack spamming battles, but FFXIII practically does the battles for you. Not a single minigame. I will never forget chocobo breeding and racing, the tower defense at mt corel, the snowboarding, blitzball and triple triad which gave purpose to every NPC, and just the abundance of variety in every aspect from characters to locations to gameplay. The series is now a pretty but hollow shell of it’s former self and Sakaguchi has much more quickly made a better linear storybased game on his own with a much smaller budget.

By: Nuno

Nuno — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:41 +0000

I know. I would even go as far as to say that the game could be remade the same way the first two monkey island games are being remade (the second as been announced today): keep the traditional style drawing in 2D that the game has but remade them as high definition drawings. I think such remake would please the fans who want the remake and the fans who don’t want the remake. I didn’t see anyone complaint about monkey island being redrawn in high definition, let alone the game featuring full new audio recordings for both music and voices. Square already has casted the voices in advent children and again in crisis core. Would square enix be willing to remake the game that way instead of going full 3D like in XIII? I dunno, but what I know is that this game need some sort of remake, either full 3D, or just a makeover like monkey island. I really think square enix could/should take a page out of lucasarts book when it cames to pleasing fans and taking gambles. The new XIII is more potatoes and less meat. VII was a complete meal in every sense of the word (desert included in the form of that ending after the credits).

By: Jhenri

Jhenri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:58:15 +0000

To nuno you have to remember that when people want something as bad as people want a FFVII remake they set the bar high and it’s hard to decide what would really please them. Either way it is a big gamble especially when a game has the backing that this one has. The remake may not live up to the original or people may not like how they remade it. It can be a double edge sword for SE. Either way they need to tread carefully on this.